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An article from Linguistics 157, pp. 67–85.
Summary:
A subordinative construction is one with a nucleus and (a) satellite(s). This kind of analysis is mostly limited to traditional ‘syntax’, i.e., to relations between ‘words’, not within them; thus derivatives were only very recently included. Nor is it customary to apply this analysis to the construction article + noun. Yet the latter constructions have sometimes been described as subordinative, with contradicting results. The accepted criterion for a nucleus — the ability to stand alone — is inapplicable to ‘morphological units’ or other closed units (bilateral dependences); attempts to apply it indirectly were only partly successful. This paper proposes a new, though related, criterion: the nucleus is the part which is responsible for the appurtenance of the construction to a given substitution-class. We thus can show that most nominal derivational suffixes are nuclei of their words, and that the article must in several languages be considered the nucleus of its noun.
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